If you consider how many boats have been coated with epoxy, and how many
complaints of failure that you hear about, I'd say you have a very good
chance that epoxy will work as advertised. In fact, failure due to water
absorption is so rare, I'd lean towards blaming the builder/epoxy coater
rather than the epoxy.

Brian


"Backyard Renegade" wrote in message
om...
"Freddie Richard" wrote in message
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What would you use instead of epoxy? or what would you recommend?

Nothing! The brunt of this discussion is that Epoxy is not a miracle
cure all, it is however probably the best the average builder has
available. The point is that Epoxy can be part of a process that will
control water movement, but it is a team effort and it takes paint,
fiberglass, proper preperation, proper application, some effort and
thought of the builder, and of course dillagence (sp?) on the part of
the owner.
Scotty from SmallBoats.com

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Thank You,
Freddie L. Richard


"William R. Watt" wrote in message
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The owner of an epoxy sheathed plywood (okume marine) kayak was
showing me
today the deterioration in the surface ply on the inside of the hull.
The
builder had let the boat sit outside over the winter mistakenly
assuming
epoxy was impervious to H2O. Snow accumulated in the cockpit, melted,
froze, melted again, and by late spring there was 6" of melt water
inside
the hull. The epoxy sheathing on the inside of the hull did not stop
the
water from getting at the plywood and starting rot. Accept the claims
of
epoxy purveyors and promoters at your peril.
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